incrimination

noun

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as in recrimination

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Recent Examples of incrimination Ray is the broken heart of Dope Thief, and the series delivers an incrimination of the systems that failed him through his roller coaster of panic and despair. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incrimination
  1. recrimination
  2. indictment
  3. accusation
  4. allegation
  5. count
  6. complaint
  7. plea
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  • Standing between the jury and a verdict are scores of hours of conflicting testimony, bitter recriminations, and a vast trove of unfiltered texts exchanged by two brilliant scientists.
    — Chris Serres — Boston Globe, STAT, 16 Oct. 2026
  • But there’s also plenty of acrimony and recrimination in the aftermath of the school board election and one final confrontation between King and Paul Martino at a roundtable that leaves little doubt that tensions are still simmering.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of recrimination
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  • Federal prosecutors brought charges against Cuban military personnel in 2003, but Castro himself was not named as a defendant until the superseding indictment filed this year.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The state charge of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder is based largely on a federal indictment announced in May that included charges of murder and destruction of an airplane.
    — David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of indictment
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  • Five days ago, the two exchanged barbs and accusations in a debate on TV Band.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The university has not responded to CNN’s questions about why the full transcript of Jane Doe’s police interview, which included Doe’s explicit rape accusation, was not included in the statement prepared by police for the DA.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of accusation
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  • Under his leadership, Israel’s prison service has drawn allegations of abuse for its treatment of Palestinian detainees.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The allegations were initally investigated as an ethics violation but evolved into a criminal matter.
    — Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of allegation
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  • No Bad Memories is an unusual gambit; by my count, there are 12 interstitial sketches to the record’s 14 proper songs.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2026
  • By focusing on what works, measuring what counts, and investing in innovation.
    — David Miliband, Time, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of count
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  • Davis’s letter follows a separate ethics complaint filed by a conservative watchdog group to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics over Slotkin’s University of Chicago remarks, first reported by the Washington Examiner on Tuesday.
    — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 22 Oct. 2026
  • According to the complaint, an internal review found that just five brokers controlled 6,345 Ticketmaster accounts holding 246,407 tickets.
    — James LaForge, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of complaint
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  • In August 2023, Bangs offered LaGrone an earlier plea agreement under which he would have been sentenced to 25 years in prison, according to a record in the district clerk’s file.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026
  • An Eagle man charged with animal cruelty in the shooting deaths of two caged cats was ordered to serve a total of 14 days in jail after accepting a plea deal in August, according to court records.
    — Harllie Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 23 Oct. 2026
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“Incrimination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incrimination. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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